“...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.” WorldWholeTechnologyDemocracyMilitaryMovementDemocraticLocalsBlockRestraintProhibition Book:Engines of Creation Source: Engines of Creation
“If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.” IfsWorldSelfTodayEffortCopiesFactoriesWorkplaceWorld Today Author:K. Eric Drexler
